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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

DeepMind: The Podcast returns for Season 2

DeepMind: The Podcast returns for Season 2, exploring the latest breakthroughs, innovations, and challenges in AI.

1/25/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

DeepMind: The Podcast returns for Season 2

Exploring the potential and creation of artificial intelligence (AI) in Season 2 of the DeepMind podcast.

1/25/2022
OpenAIOpenAI

Text and code embeddings by contrastive pre-training

Exploring the power of text and code embeddings through contrastive pre-training

1/24/2022
Stanford AIStanford AI

Reward Isn't Free: Supervising Robot Learning with Language and Video from the Web

Read about how to supervise the reward learning process for robots by leveraging crowd-sourced natural language descriptions of robot behavior and using diverse human videos from the web.

1/21/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Spurious normativity enhances learning of compliance and enforcement behavior in artificial agents

Exploring how multi-agent deep reinforcement learning can enhance learning of compliance and enforcement behavior in artificial agents to model complex social interactions and social norms.

1/18/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Spurious normativity enhances learning of compliance and enforcement behavior in artificial agents

Exploring how multi-agent deep reinforcement learning can model complex social interactions and create richer simulations.

1/18/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery

AlphaFold is a groundbreaking AI system that accurately predicts protein structures, advancing scientific discovery and potentially revolutionizing disease treatment and environmental management.

1/15/2022
Jane StreetJane Street

How Jane Street Pairs Interns to Projects and Teams During the Software Engineering Internship

The blogpost explains how Jane Street pairs interns to projects and teams during their software engineering internship.

1/14/2022
Jane StreetJane Street

Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace

Diagnose performance issues easily using Intel Processor Trace with accurate program execution flow and timing information recording.

1/11/2022
ChromiumChromium

Chrome 98 Beta: Color Gradient Vector Fonts, Region Capture Origin Trial, and More

This blogpost introduces the new features, including support for COLRv1 color gradient vector fonts, region capture origin trial, and more, in the Chrome 98 beta release.

1/10/2022
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Obvious Ownership: A Sensible Humane Registry

A case study of building a humane registry (the Services Directory) at SoundCloud that uses manifest files and JSON Schema to surface ownership, dependencies, and governance across teams, boosting onboarding, collaboration, and developer tooling through automated validation and dashboards.

1/6/2022
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Obvious Ownership: A Sensible Humane Registry

A case study on building a humane registry (Services Directory) that exposes software ownership, dependencies, and governance through manifest-driven ingestion, JSON Schema validation, and developer-friendly tooling.

1/6/2022